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Review of Rumba Argelina

Rumba Argelina

Radio Tarifa

Top of the World

World Circuit/BMG

Rating: ★★★★

When Rumba Argelina blasted the late Benjamín Escoriza and his Moorish sidemen to the fore of Spanish flamenco fusion in...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of Natural Angle

Natural Angle

Gráda

Compass Records 745282

Rating: ★★★★

Nearing the end of their first decade together, Gráda have returned to the recording studio for the first time since...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2010

Review of Live in Concert

Live in Concert

Chris Stout's Brazilian Theory

Chris Stout Music

Rating: ★★★★

Fiddler Chris Stout comes from Fair Isle, which lies between Orkney and Shetland, north-east of the Scottish mainland, famous for...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of The Rough Guide to the Music of Hungary

The Rough Guide to the Music of Hungary

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

There has been renewed activity and invention on the Hungarian folk scene in recent years, as a new generation has...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of The Right Combination

The Right Combination

Joel Savoy, Jesse Lege & the Cajun Country Revival

Top of the World

Valcour Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Joel Savoy (pronounced the Cajun French way, ‘Joelle Savoie’) has become a central figure in the ‘Acadian Uprising’, a second-generation...

Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: July/2011

Review of Good Times of Old England

Good Times of Old England

Steeleye Span

Chrysalis

Rating: ★★★★

Span are still a touring and recording band, like their 70s folk-rock compatriots Fairport, and a good portion of their...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2022

Review of The Broken Tongue

The Broken Tongue

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird

Oriente RIEN CD 73

Rating: ★★★

The much talked-about Yiddish revival has one of its most eloquent advocates in the American accord¬ionist and Berlin resident, Daniel...

Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of American Radical Patriot

American Radical Patriot

Woody Guthrie

Rounder Records

Rating: ★★★★★

There is a certain irony that America’s great hobo poet, whose songs packed such a punch because they were so...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2014

Review of Geodesia

Geodesia

Luís Peixoto

Sons Vadios

Rating: ★★★

Luís Peixoto belongs to a certain category of musicians that keep going back and forth, into and out of the...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2021

Review of An Introduction to Ewan MacColl

An Introduction to Ewan MacColl

Ewan MacColl

Topic Records

Rating: ★★

Ewan MacColl was hugely important in the folk revival of the mid-20th century. He worked first in radical theatre, acting...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2018

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